Marc Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Hi all Due to some more unwanted spam/vandalism to the wiki, we're taking it down for a few days while we upgrade to the latest version of mediawiki and get the skins sorted out. Once it's back up, I will post back here and let you know. Thanks odforce chaps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted October 12, 2005 Author Share Posted October 12, 2005 The wiki has been upgraded to the latest version which allows us to put a few limits on how editing gets done. From now on you will be forced to login in order to edit a page. It shouldn't be too much hassle and it will hopefully save us from the garden variety spam, which is a blessing to us all Cheers Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 On wiki spam, I did some reading on it and it seems that they don't even care that you remove the spam because it still shows up in the change history. So Google still indexes it and the links on there get higher rankings. So you either have to delete the spam completely including the change history, or have a robots.txt to make sure Google doesn't index old pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 On wiki spam, I did some reading on it and it seems that they don't even care that you remove the spam because it still shows up in the change history. So Google still indexes it and the links on there get higher rankings. So you either have to delete the spam completely including the change history, or have a robots.txt to make sure Google doesn't index old pages. 23162[/snapback] Oh, thats a bummer. It seems like the spammers do just log in and spam up the place anyway. Marc, is there a way to make only validated logins able to modify/add wiki pages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Sure.. that's the plan. If our server admins stopped randomly changing the way we login to the server, then it would've been done already . I'll try and get in today. M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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